I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Sciences and a faculty affiliate in the Informatics Program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I direct the Reworlding Our Orientations to Technology (ROOT) Lab, where we study more sustainable and just ways of designing, building, and living with emerging digital technologies rooted in care for the planet and all its residents. I am also a fellow at the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Trained in computer science, information science, and human-centered design, I am interested in examining how technologies can be (re)designed to nurture socio-ecologically just and sustainable futures. My work develops Post-growth Computing as a generative research program that reconceptualizes computing’s objectives, infrastructures, practices, and pedagogy built around the assumption of unbridled growth, i.e., speed, scale, efficiency, and perpetual innovation, which is incompatible with finite ecological resources. It has been supported by Microsoft Research, the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, and the National Science Foundation. My research values are elaborated further in my reflective essay: Reflection, Reckoning, and Refusal.

I hold a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech, an MS in Computer & Information Science from UC Irvine, and a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from Chitkara University, India. I was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. I previously worked as a software engineer at Informatica Inc., developing automated software testing frameworks.

I am recruiting students interested in human-computer interaction, sustainable computing, climate informatics, responsible AI, and/or ICTD. PhD positions begin in Fall 2027; research assistantship positions of those at UIUC can begin as early as Spring 2027. See the ROOT Lab for more details.